CuRL Scripts?

Does anyone here know how to turn a Curl crontab into a php script?

example:

25 * * * * curl --user username:password http://www.website.com/wp-content/update-feeds.php -d update=quiet

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Thanks!

 

There are 2 options :

- run the curl command with the shell_exec() command but this isn't allowed on most hosts
- run the curl command from within the php page :

        $ch = curl_init('http://www.website.com/feed.php');
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $remote_login.':'.$remote_password);
	$contents = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);

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This way you have the results in the $contents variable. If you execute this php script in a crontab you have what you need.

 

Thanks Sgthayes... but one question. I am using the feedwordpress plugin and it requires me to open the update-feeds.php page and click submit everytime i want to update my blog.

I think the real meat of the line of cURL i got from the FeedWordpress site was the " -d update=quiet" part at the end. he mentioned that it was the part of the code that did a $post on the page which in turn got the feeds updated.

basically - where in the code above that you posted would i put these switches?

Thanks... green for you for your very quick response...

 

if the update=quiet are post vars it would go like this :

        $ch = curl_init('http://www.website.com/feed.php');
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $remote_login.':'.$remote_password);
        
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'update=quiet');

	$contents = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);

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Have a look at the php curl docs for more info. Especially look at the curl_setopt() function. That's where all the good stuff is